New dates for SAARC Summit to be announced soon

2 October 2016 09:42 am Views - 3522

Days after Sri Lanka became the fifth country in the eight-member grouping to pull out of the SAARC Summit, in a press release, the Pakistan foreign office said, “a new set of dates for holding of the 19th Saarc Summit at Islamabad will be announced soon, through the Chair of Saarc (Nepal).”

Pakistan on Friday night postponed the event, which was to be held in Islamabad on November 9-10.